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Still I wonder why so many people like to advertize their blog thru PPC. Since most of them earn revenue thru Adsense, you're actually playing the wrong game...

Paying for traffic to Google and then earning for traffic from Google. What's up with that?

Other then that, PPC campaigns are better off when you got something to sell and can earn money directly. Most here don't have the capital to first do PPC to get blog visitors and then take weeks/months to convert them to paying customers.

Still I wonder why so many people like to advertize their blog thru PPC. Since most of them earn revenue thru Adsense, you're actually playing the wrong game...

Paying for traffic to Google and then earning for traffic from Google. What's up with that?

Other then that, PPC campaigns are better off when you got something to sell and can earn money directly. Most here don't have the capital to first do PPC to get blog visitors and then take weeks/months to convert them to paying customers.

-Dave

Very well said Dave. There are lots of other options besides Google. But I think if the project is low on finances, the owner should try forum postings and the traditional ways of submitting to SE's, directories, etc.

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Using PPC to promote your blog, this is crazy! When you use PPC, you always need to work on your landing page and copy writing in order to sell something that have more profit margin. If not, you just throwing money away. Believe me it's just too costly to get readers using PPC unless you are making money out of the readers ( which I doubt it since you don't have landing page and etc )

The main reason to have a blog is to capture long tail search engine traffic, build audiences, build reputation, build expertize, build large content size that is helpful. It will take 3-8months before you can really make a decent living out of blog.

Using PPC to promote affiliate product will be faster, but riskier, you might lose your shirt there if you don't know how be an effective marketer ...

In blog, it's all about traffic, traffic, traffic and content.
In Affiliate PPC, it's all about conversion and profit margin.

You need to decide which skills you want to master and ... start focus and making money out of it.

Making money through blog is on the content does it have. I have Adsense on my blog and with less earnings and hope to grow. I think there is other way on how can we earn money to our blog is through affiliate programs, adsense alternatives, paid links and a lot more. It is important to have a quality and unique content to a blog because usually user read it, if it is informative and useful to them.

Making money from your blog can be unlimited, but it depends on how you use it.

In one of my businesses we use a blog to attract people to our list. From that list we try to sell them expensive services. About 4-5% of all visitors get on the list. 8% of that list buys our services.

Our services in that market start at $1,500/month, with a contract of at least a year. That's $18,000/year. Good profits from a blog with 200+ visitors per day.

So, it all depends on how you want to make profits and what you got to offer.

Making money from your blog can be unlimited, but it depends on how you use it.

In one of my businesses we use a blog to attract people to our list. From that list we try to sell them expensive services. About 4-5&#37; of all visitors get on the list. 8% of that list buys our services.

Our services in that market start at $1,500/month, with a contract of at least a year. That's $18,000/year. Good profits from a blog with 200+ visitors per day.

So, it all depends on how you want to make profits and what you got to offer.

There are several ways to make money with blogs. I started blogging because a friend of mine is making arround 3K from his blog. He told me a few of his tricks and with a little effort I believe that anyone can make some good extra bucks.

You can make money from Blogs. You have to put work into it. Its not a set it and forget it type of site. I think thats why people think they don't make money from them. You have to work at it and don't give up. I was making about $1 a day for a long time and have been making about $4 a day and had my first $10 day this week. I have had the site for about 1 year.